. William H. Seward's travels around the world. anner on each side, then four priests, then four ministers orstatesmen. These figures are about twelve feet high, their costumeChinese. By their attitude and expression they seem to point withsilent homage to the tombs of the great beyond. Next we pass inreview a double row of equally colossal horses, four on each side, two of them resting on their haunches, and two erect; next ele-16 192 JAPAN, CHINA, AND COCHIN CHINA. pliants erect, and elephants in a sitting posture : then camelsstanding and camels couchant ; then lions rampant and lionsasleep
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. anner on each side, then four priests, then four ministers orstatesmen. These figures are about twelve feet high, their costumeChinese. By their attitude and expression they seem to point withsilent homage to the tombs of the great beyond. Next we pass inreview a double row of equally colossal horses, four on each side, two of them resting on their haunches, and two erect; next ele-16 192 JAPAN, CHINA, AND COCHIN CHINA. pliants erect, and elephants in a sitting posture : then camelsstanding and camels couchant ; then lions rampant and lionsasleep ; then buffaloes standing and at rest; then asses, and atthe end rhinoceroses. Here two arches of honor, like those at theother end of the avenue, open on unconsecrated ground. Thoughthe sculpture must have been executed three hundred years ago, itexcels much of the statuary found in the public grounds at Wash-ington, and is very effective. Of this we have evidence so strongthat we. should be afraid to produce it, if there were not a cloud of.
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